Method: Item#export

Defined in:
lib/item.rb

#export ⇒ Object

The export method serializes all of the formats, ID, and previous ID into a hash that is used for publishing to clients. If more than one instance of the same type of Format implementation was specified then an error will be raised.



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# File 'lib/item.rb', line 34

def export
  format_types = []
  @formats.each do |format|
    if !format_types.index(format.class.name).nil?
      raise 'more than one instance of ' + format.class.name + ' specified'
    end
    format_types.push(format.class.name)
  end
  out = Hash.new
  if !@id.nil?
    out['id'] = @id
  end
  if !@prev_id.nil?
    out['prev-id'] = @prev_id
  end
  @formats.each do |format|
    out[format.name] = format.export
  end
  return out
end